ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Adonais, pastoral elegy by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written and published in 1821 to commemorate the death of his friend and fellow poet John Keats earlier that year.

Detailed explanation-2: -Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is the theme of Adonais? Adonais commemorates the life and legacy of John Keats. The main themes that appear in the poem are the relationship between man and nature, immortalization and rebirth, and the influence of art and beauty.

Detailed explanation-4: -Adonais is an elegy in the pastoral convention in which Percy Bysshe Shelley commemorates John Keats who died young. Keats’s death is presented through a ritualistic course of events that echo the poetry of the pastoral tradition.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies. The title of the poem is modelled on ancient works, such as Achilleis (a poem about Achilles), an epic poem by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Statius, and refers to the untimely death of the Greek Adonis, a god of fertility.